Fanfic and a lot of links

“Noooo!” I can hear some of you wailing, upon the mention of the dreaded f_____ word. Well, that’s kind of all we have left, and people are still writing!

The first is a new FanFiction.net upload, the first new story there in over two years–it’s the beginning of a story set in the future of the PoDW universe. A crew of three rescues a stranger struggling on a raft…only to find that he’s Ren, the son of Primus, who’s failed in finding the final five Treasures of Rule and passes the Compass and the Quest on to this new group with his dying breath. I rather liked the Ren/Primus parallel.

The second is the product of a fanfic challenge, and is an in-progress series of short pieces rooted in an alternate universe: what if, after episode 5, Tula had joined up with Bloth, in order to learn his plans and to keep him away from Ren? Some of these short pieces (friends-locked on her journal, but public on the fanfic community where I originally found this) have a decidedly adult twist to them…as a woman aboard a pirate ship, certain sacrifices have to be made. I haven’t read them all yet, but I’ve liked the ones I’ve seen so far.

And the third is a cute play on Ren’s lovely looks, gorgeous blue eyes, and long locks of blonde hair–“Dude Looks Like A Lady”.

Oh, and another old one (from 2000, yikes): Dark Water in Neverland, a PoDW/Peter Pan and the Pirates crossover, done in round-robin format.

It’s also time to start posting some of this huge backlog of links I’ve been bookmarking for a very, very long time. (For the “omgwtf you obsessive scary woman” naysayers, I don’t spend hours a day scouring the web for this stuff…I find a new link every couple of months, bookmark it, and forget about it.) I think I’ve posted the really awesome stuff immediately, but there are still a few gems. Apologies if any of these have been posted already!

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